Leah Bracknell health update: Emmerdale star making cannabis oil at home to help cancer

“Only stopping in recent months when I embarked on the trial,” the former Emmerdale star continued.

Leah said she had just passed two years from the day when she received her diagnosis of stage 4 lung cancer.

Speaking about making cannabis oil at home, the star, who recently finished the first phase of a drug trial, said: “Many thousands of people prefer to medicate using the plant itself, smoking it for quick pain relief, or like myself making it into an oil in order to ingest the large quantities required for maximum healing.”

She said she had found the cannabis effective in helping to cope with the side effects of her prescription drugs, especially during chemotherapy treatments.

Leah told fans recent scans, following the end of the first phase of her drugs trial, have shown her cancer is “stable”.

She explained her results mean she has hope for the future, saying: “It means that I